On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Integrate updating the submodules into git checkout,... > > It was more or less a pleasant read, once I decided to pretend that > I were a machine who uses identifiers only to identify locations in > the program ;-) IOW, for human consumption, the new names introduced > were sometimes quite confusing and went against helping understanding. > Based on my cursory reading, I agree. I had trouble understanding how the process worked because the names were somewhat confusing. They started to make some sense as I read more. I think v4 had better names than v3, but they were still somewhat confusing to me. Regards, Jake